[gnu-sol-discuss] Re: [sfwnv-discuss] Re: [ports-discuss] Re: [sfwnv] Open Source software and OpenSolaris. What is the deal?

[Shawn Walker]

On 04/05/07, Brian Gupta <brian.gupta at gmail.com> wrote:
> Whether we are talking about Solaris or OpenSolaris, can we agree that
> we are talking about a framework to incorporate Solaris community
> efforts into OpenSolaris, with the hope that those changes will be
> incorporated into Solaris.

You are missing one very key thing in this.

3rd party software is not supposed to go into /usr (as far as I know).

It is supposed to go into /opt, /etc/opt, /var/opt, and so on.

See "man filesystem"

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